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Los Angeles-Don’t be fooled into believing that there isn’t much to do in Los Angeles. This past weekend, February 16th-19th was mind blowing with all of the events, activities taking place throughout the City of Angels.

I was most fortunate to be invited to a screening of Back to Natural: A Documentary Film. The film screening and brunch was hosted by LA Naturals the largest natural hair meetup group on the West Coast consisting of 1,300 members.

Today marks the beginning of the 2018 Chinese New Year a celebration that will run over the course of two weeks. Based on the lunar calendar Chinese New Year has a moving timeline falling typically between January 21 and February 20.

Los Angeles-The first weekend of the Pan African Film and Arts Festival is a wrap! Don’t despair; there is still time to catch the festival, which runs through Monday, February 19th at the Rave Cinemark Theatres and at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza.Yes, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, each year we get to go on a global journey of the African diaspora through cinema and to enjoy the brilliant artwork of local and international artists.

PAFF 2018 opens its doors to a film by Alfons Adetuyi, “Love Jacked” on opening night. A warm family comedy centered around Maya, a headstrong 28-year-old with artistic ambitions and her father Ed, who wants a dutiful daughter to run the family store. Ed is shocked when Maya, asserting her independence, decides to travel to Africa for inspiration and returns with a fiancé.

On Feb. 1, USCIS and the Department of State implemented new procedures to ensure that all individuals admitted as refugees receive similar, thorough vetting – whether they are principal refugees, accompanying family members, or following-to-join refugees.

The most highly anticipated show, The 2018 NAMM, National Association of Music Merchants Show returned to the newly expanded Anaheim Convention Center from January 25-28, 2018. This incredible event featured a plethora of musical acts spanning a variety of genres, ages and compositions.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that the agency will schedule asylum interviews for recent applications ahead of older filings, in an attempt to stem the growth of the agency’s asylum backlog.

In an unprecedented move on Thursday just when DACA recipients and politicians were still digesting the possibility for a solution to the fate of over 700,000 DACA recipients, President Donald Trump threw another curve ball in the mix offering a pathway to citizenship for an estimated 1.8 million undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children.